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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
John Locke
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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.
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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.
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The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.
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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
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How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them? I answer, they should make them themselves, or at least endeavour it, and set themselves about it. ...And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them.
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The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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